Czartowska Skała

Czartowska Skała is an elevation of 463 m above sea level in southwestern Poland, on the Kaczawskie Foothills, in the West Sudety Foothills.

The hill is located west of the Chełmy Landscape Park, about 6.5 km northwest of Myślibórz, in the Lower Silesia Province.

It is a small post-volcanic hill in the shape of a small, slightly crooked cone undercut on both sides by excavations of inactive quarries. The hill with relatively steep slopes and a clearly marked top rises alone in the central-western part of the Z這toryja Hills in the central part of the Che康my Landscape Park, clearly distinguishing itself from the flat landscape. The hill has a varied geological structure, built of basalts - Miocene volcanites that are part of the core of a former shield volcano filled with lava and lava cover with alkaline lava. The basalt building up the hill is fractured and forms regular columns. The lower parts of the slope are covered by solifluction formations and at the foot there are glacial, fluvioglacial sediments. During the transgression of the ice sheet to the Kaczawskie Foothills the hill was not completely covered by ice, it was a rocky nunatak protruding from the ice sheet to the height of several meters.

The hill on the northern side is overgrown with small clumps of trees and bushes. On the slope of the hill there are excavations of a former quarry, in which, during mining, a part of the former volcanic chimney with a clear columnar separation of basalt was exposed. Since 1991 the hill has been the Czartowska Skała Monument of Inanimate Nature and is under legal protection. Czartowska Skała is a habitat of protected plants; stemless carline thistle, male orchid, lilac orchid, wolfsbane, and primrose.